deep-six \DEEP-SIKS\ verb

I see Merriam-Webster's in strong support of my moving efforts; thanks, Merriam-Webster!

plage \PLAHZH\ noun

I had this Victorian Seaside Hotel coloring book when I was little, and my favorite page was the big spread of the beach with everyone walking around.  Would be nice, especially on a dreary day like today.

yawp \YAWP\ verb

YAWP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I was on a precipice, yawping into the abyss that would be inevitably spreading out below me.

Just one of those days...

welkin \WEL-kin\ noun

A good reminder that the sky's the limit.

And a sweet reminder of my favorite sunset in my favorite place:

fructify \FRUK-tuh-fye\ verb

With my day suddenly opened up, what to do with all this free time?

Help a friend organize and pack up her apartment, of course.

slew \SLOO\ noun

ABC Kitchen this evening for a friend's birthday, so I thought I'd peruse the menu online and WOWZA!  So many options and so many yummy ones at that!  Overwhelmed but excited.

kedge \KEJ\ verb

I did this today.  I'm not even joking.  I was on a boat, and a trampoline float, and we did this both times.  Portage Lake, I love you!

silly season \SIL-ee-SEE-zun\ noun

On vacation, you get to catch up on many things: sleep, exercise, celebrity news and gossip.  Yes, I know some people scoff at this practice, but so far on this vacation I've read Marie Claire, US Weekly, People Magazine, and perezhilton.com. 

And what have we here at the rental cabin?  People issues from the last 5 months?  Don't mind if I do! 

anthophilous \an-THAH-fuh-lus\ adjective

Another new favorite word of mine, meaning living among flowers or feeding upon them, I drove from Portland, Maine to Portage, Maine today to celebrate the marriage of dear friends, Katy & Jeff, and wow- what a glorious state.  Those who know me know that this is not a new feeling for me, but every time I go to Maine, I rediscover my love for the state.

tucket \TUCK-ut\ noun

The sound of this waterfall in Prospect Park, i.e. my new favorite place, sounded an awful lot like the fanfare of trumpets.

sciential \sye-EN-shul\ adjective

Once more unto the breach, my friends, once more!  Wish me luck- I think I have all the info. I need to take care of some life stuff today.  Fingers crossed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6DQZYPBeU&sns=fb

By the way: this is what I do in grad school.

hydromancy \HYE-druh-man-see\ noun

Ponds, water fountains, and some interesting clouds today... predicting my future?

scupper \SKUP-er\ verb

I give in... this heat has taken me prisoner.  I'm completely defeated and resigned to my fancy prison cell.  Why fancy, you say?  In it is the fanciest A.C. unit I've ever encountered.

goober \GOO-ber\ noun

Goober, eh?  They're giving me the "peanut" definition, but I think they mean I can be a little overly sentimental.  Especially with great ones like this:

Crossing Ohio When Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula

1
Go away. Leave the high winds of May
blowing over the fields of grape vines
near the northwest corner of Pennsylvania.
Leave the doorstep peonies
pushing high bosoms at passers— by
in northern Ohio towns in May.

Leave the boys flying light blue kites
on a deep blue sky; and the yellow, the
yellow spilling over the drinking rims
of the buttercups, piling their yellows
into foam blown sea rims of yellow;
Go away; go to New York,
Broadway, Fifth Avenue, glass
lights and leaves, glass faces,
fingers; go

2
Pick me poppies in Ohio,
mother.
Pick me poppies in the back yard
in Ashtabula.
May going, poppies coming, summer humming:
make it a poppy summer, mother; the leaves
sing in the silk, the leaves sing a tawny
red gold; seven sunsets saved themselves
to be here now.

Pick me poppies, mother; go, May; wash me,
summer; shoot up this back yard in Ashta—
bula, shoot it up, give us a daylight fire—
works in Ohio, burn it up with tawny red
gold.

— Carl Sandburg

pyrotechnics \pye-ruh-TEK-niks\ noun plural

My July 4th was a lovely contrast of calm & quiet, juxtaposed later this evening with some great mid-town firework views.  Early morning walk/jog in Prospect Park, Central's much more ramble-y cousin, followed by visits with dear old friends Hallie & Nick in mid-town, the latter of whom was dog-sitting a handsome pit bull named Archie.  We glimpsed the fireworks from the apartment building's roof, before watching a youtube video of Whitney Houston singing the National Anthem to end the day.  I leave you with it now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE

volant \VOH-lunt\ adjective

Spent my day flying kites at Fort Tilden beach yesterday.  I still feel free and salty.

convoke \kun-VOHK\ verb

I would like to convoke a conference at the Brooklyn Cyclones on July 4th- anyone else interested??